Merriam-Webster’s Words of the Year 2018: Critical Linking, December 21, 2018
Sponsored by MIRA Books and Hunting Annabelle by Wendy Heard. Our Word of the Year for 2018 is justice. It was a top lookup throughout the year...
A Year in Reading: Letitia Montgomery-Rodgers
The self is singular; the self is communal. What a paradox, especially in this harrowing year, filled with systemic horrors and the threat of more to...
GitHub reflections: Was 2018 the year of open source?
The end of the year means time for reflection and building your New Year’s resolutions! Even GitHub’s State of the Octoverse reveals some trends of 2018....
No more gradients for your ML models with Nevergrad, an open source Python toolkit from Facebook
Fine-tuning machine learning models takes a lot of trial and error. Now, thanks to a recently open sourced toolkit from Facebook, developers can rely on a...
7 things to look out for in 2019: Changes for open source, data privacy, and the cloud
No one know what the future might hold, but we’re taking our best stab at it with some pretty educated guesses. The new year is just...
Vodafone Blocks Two Pirate Streaming Sites Without a Court Order
The fact that ISPs around the world are blocking pirate sites to prevent copyright infringement is nothing new. The practice has been going for more than...
How to succeed in tech: StateZero Labs’ Tazz Gault and Katie Mills share their tips
A research study by The National Center for Women & Information Technology showed that “gender diversity has specific benefits in technology settings,” which could explain why tech...
Facebook Is Reportedly Pursuing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp
Thanks to Facebook’s incessant flood of wrongdoing making headlines nearly daily, any of us would be forgiven for forgetting about its pivot to the blockchain. But the...
Geek Trivia: What Popular Video Game Was Called “Big Pineapple” In Order To Dodge Chinese Censorship?
What Popular Video Game Was Called “Big Pineapple” In Order To Dodge Chinese Censorship? StarCraft II Angry Birds Diablo III Draw Something Think you know the...
The Jonestown We Don’t Know
Guyana’s landscape, especially its vast, undeveloped interior, has long invited fantasies of riches and peopling, from Raleigh’s conquistador visions of it as “El Dorado,” or the...
